268 On Cheese-making in Home Dairies and in Factories. 
quote particular illustrations to the same effect. The average price 
of the cheese made at the Windley Hall Factory, near Derby, 
Avas 4/. 35. l^d. per cwt. of 120 lbs. over 34 tons 2 cwt. 1 qr. 
made in 1873 ; and 4Z. Is. over about 42 tons made in 1874. 
At Longford the price was 4/. 25. 4rf. over 86^ tons in 1873, 
and 4/. 25. 3|(/. over 84^ tons (all that had been sold at the date 
of my information) in 1874. It is impossible to get the corre- 
sponding figures for equal quantities of cheese made in private 
dairies ; but keeping in mind how few of the whole number ol 
sales reach the highest figures given in any market quotation, 
something may be learned from the following prices, taken froiti 
the ' Agricultural Gazette,' as representing the market prices ol 
cheese, month by month, last year, in Derbyshire, at factories 
and private dairies respectively. 
Prices of Chkese in Derbyshire,* 1874. 
Home Daiuy Cheese. 
Factory Cheese. 
Date. 
Per Cwt. of 120 lbs. 
Per Cwt. of 120 lbs. 
Lowest Price. 
Highest Pi 
ice. 
Lowest Price. 
Higliost Price. 

£ 
s. 
d. 
£ 
s. 
d. 
£ 
S. 
£ 
d. 
August 22 .. .. 
3 
0 
0 
4 
0 
0 
4 
0 
0 
4 
2 
G 
September 12 .. 
3 
8 
0 
4 
1 
0 
4 
0 
0 
4 
5 
0 
,, 26 .. .. 
3 
8 
0 
4 
4 
0 
4 
0 
0 
4 
6 
6 
October 10 .. .. 
3 
5 
0 
4 
4 
0 
4 
2 
0 
4 
7 
0 
17 .. .. 
3 
5 
0 
4 
4 
0 
4 
3 
0 
4 
6 
6 
24 .. .. 
3 
5 
0 
4 
9 
0 
4 
3 
0 
4 
7 
0 
November 7 .. 
3 
0 
0 
4 
2 
0 
4 
4 
0 
4 
7 
0 
28 .. .. 
2 
15 
0 
4 
4 
0 
4 
4 
0 
4 
10 
0 
December 5 .. 
3 
8 
0 
4 
2 
0 
4 
4 
0 
4 
6 
0 
19 .. .. 
3 
8 
0 
4 
2 
0 
4 
4 
0 
4 
6 
0 
2G .. .. 
3 
0 
0 
4 
4 
0 
4 
1 
0 
4 
G 
0 
The above quotations commence only in the month of August 
but the difference in the value of home-made and of factory chees 
is even greater in the earlier months. The first make ol chees 
in home dairies — "Fodder or Eoosey"t cheese as it is callec 
when the cows are still in the house — is generally of inferi( 
* The actual prices named in any case may be Idwer or liiglier than those whi( 
could bo quoted of Cheshire, Somersetshire, or Gloucestershire. It is not eilh 
as vaunting or lamenting Derbyshire experience that the figures are quoted. Tl 
prices are stated simply lor the comparison which they give of homo and liictoi 
cheese. 
t " lioosey," i. e., made while the cows arc still in the house. " Every cow 
its own boose," or stall, is a phrase perfectly understood in Derbyshire cowhou8( 
